Grant sued Trump four years ago for tweeting an anti-Biden cartoon that used 40 seconds of the song as a soundtrack. The August 2020 tweet was viewed 13.7 million times before Twitter took it down, and Grant says this was an unauthorized use for which Trump owes him $300,000 in damages.
Despite its relatively low monetary stakes, Grant's lawsuit is being challenged aggressively by Trump, and the oral arguments scheduled for this Friday will debut an extraordinary defense.
Trump's lawyers are set to argue that, for decades, Grant somehow neglected to copyright the sound recording, or 'master,' for 'Electric Avenue.' They acknowledge that Grant copyrighted the sheet music 40 years ago.
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